Actually, after shortening a jacket a little too much while going for something like I saw Matt Newsome wearing in a posting here I toyed with the idea of adding about two inches to the bottom with a button flap like an Ike. Basically, I was working toward a hybrid Ike and Crail. Maybe I'll dig it out of the closet and give it a shot.

As for the main topic of this thread, I am not enough of an international fashion watcher to say what is uniquely American or a new traditional style in regards to kilt wear. All I can tell you is how I do it, and see a few others do it. Other than modified jackets and kilt hose and flashes, I simply replace p@nts with a kilt. I let it stand on its own as opposed to making a big spectacle of wearing it(not that others do, but some seem to give that impression). The other thing that is somewhat unique to my part of the US is that we tend to avoid "bling", with the exception of rodeo buckles, so I have a tendancy to use antique and pewter finished buckles, buttons, etc, and keep things relatively simple and understated. Anyway, that's my two cents.